Re: Octave swarm, take3

[Thomas Weber]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:16:48PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> I hope my hosts aren't brought down by a sudden surge in traffic. I
> don't know how many people follow this mailing list regularly.
> Hopefully it will all be fine.

I've mirrored the files at
http://www.num.uni-sb.de/~weber/octave/

> A few final remarks: I made these videos in hopes that they could be
> used to promote Octave. If anyone needs some help for creating
> different versions of the videos (change the music or whatever), let
> me know and I'll try to help. They show two things very clearly: (1)
> jwe has done, pardon the expression, a metric fuckton of work on this
> project for the last 16 years and it would be a sad loss if he were
> unable to keep contributing, although (2) the number of contributors
> to the project has been steadily rising and really exploded recently,
> so I do not fear too much for the future of Octave development. It
> seems alive and well so far. I am hoping these observations or others
> you can draw from seeing Octave's development with these videos can
> help convince people with money that it's worthwhile for them to
> contribute to Octave. :-)

One question: do the number and size of bubbles have a meaning?

        Thomas